--- title: Genesis 46:1 (JPS 1917) — And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer-s… · tree and pragmatics description: And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer-sheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac. Who acts: Israel. Genesis 46:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1503/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Torah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/) / [Genesis](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/) / [chapter 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/46/) / [46:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.46.1/) / JPS 1 # Genesis 46:1 · JPS 1917 And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer-sheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac. **Who acts:** Israel · **What happens:** take, have, come, offer, journey · **To what, where:** journey, Beer sheba, sacrifices This is Genesis 46:1 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Israel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = jps:GEN:1503 # text = And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer-sheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 3 obl _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 obj _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Beer Beer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ _ 17 sheba Sheba PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 offered offer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 21 sacrifices sacrifice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 unto unto ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 Isaac Isaac PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 appos _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | Israel | Israel's journey | | | | with all | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Theme | | 2 | **have** | past | Israel | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient | | 3 | **come** | past | Israel *not said here* | Beer sheba | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **offer** | past | Israel *not said here* | sacrifices | | | | unto the God of Israel's father | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent sacrifice=Theme | | 5 | **journey** | | Israel | | | | | | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. ## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew} וַיִּסַּ֤ע יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ וְכָל־אֲשֶׁר־ל֔וֹ וַיָּבֹ֖א בְּאֵ֣רָה שָּׁ֑בַעבְּאֵ֣רָה שָּׁ֑בַע בְּאֵ֣רָה שָּׁ֑בַע וַיִּזְבַּ֣ח זְבָחִ֔ים לֵאלֹהֵ֖י אָבִ֥יו יִצְחָֽק׃ [Genesis 46:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.46.1/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1503` of Mova's parse database. **The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter. - ← previous: [Genesis 45:28 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1502/) - next →: [Genesis 46:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1504/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 46:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.46.1/)